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Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

So I'm watching a aoe2 match on youtube and I noticed that things looked kinda different and I figured it was just a mod or something but then they zoom in and I'm like oh, this must be DE. I'll read a little bit to see what people's opinions are but how is the netcode? I played a comp stomp on aoe2 with a friend a while back and good lord there was a lot of latency in responses.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 08:01

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:51

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

drat I might have to buy it then. That said, now I feel like I got screwed buying whatever the up to the then current expansion iteration was in AoE2HD though. If I do it'll be at least the fourth time I've bought the game. Maybe more.

Toast King posted:

It's basically always good enough to maneuver units around mangonel shots which is a pain with bad latency.

Wow I couldn't imagine doing that as is.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2020 12:22

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

After the initial disappointment of realizing they hosed with god drat hotkeys again (and the brief panic attack I had when it went to black screen for 45+ seconds after the admittedly great looking intro), I played a random map for 30 seconds and afaict I can't imagine playing any other version than the DE. I'm sure there's some disappointing poo poo in here but I haven't seen it yet.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 13:36

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I'm at 99 minutes so far so nowhere nearly enough to be well definitive but this may well be the greatest remaster of an old game I have ever (personally) played. I might be forgetting something obvious, though.

Meanwhile, in WC3 land....

e:

Harveygod posted:

In the hotkey settings, you actually have the option to select "HD Defaults" or "CD Defaults". I found I really like the new ones, though, since it's laid out so that the buttons on the screen match the layout of the keys under your left hand. Also "CTRL + SHIFT + ..." to select all of a building type has been really convenient.

Oh yeah. No doubt, once I quickly figured out what was going on I decided I'm gonna stick with them. It's startlingly intuitive. And by startling I mean because it's not in the vanilla. I'm just grumpy I'm gonna stay clear of more serious games for the short term until I relearn everything. For the third time.

Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Apr 21, 2020

# ¿ Apr 21, 2020 17:00

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I bought TA on a lark because I do on occasion like macro-focused, more strategic scale games where the resource collecting takes a back seat to combat management. I've been on a competitive rts viewing kick lately and watched a few pro matches on youtube and it seemed pretty good in this regard. Just a few comments. First is I'm surprised at how modern the game feels, particularly the interface. It's missing a few things (I don't think you can set rally points which is... unfortunate) but nothing that I think would cripple my enjoyment. It does feel a little slow with a few units but it probably gets hectic as poo poo once mid game rolls around. And can I say how awesome it is that a 23 year old game has surprisingly high resolutions. Second of all is the campaign kinda sucks. At the very least it sucks at actually teaching you about the game. I had to pop onto youtube to figure out what an effective build order would be for the second mission. I figured out energy collection but I had to restart by the time I realized I had to collect metal too.

Anyway, I bought this on steam and I'm curious about multiplayer. I would like to play against someone and I think my keeping it is contingent on that fact. If there is any sort of competitive or casual scene, where would I go for that sort of thing? I doubt heat.com is a thing anymore

I know GOG has a version for only a dollar more and it also comes with expansion packs so if it also has a baked in multiplayer I might just get it instead.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 16:35

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Corbeau posted:

Yeah, TA was pretty crazy about automation for the time. Been so long since I last touched it that I couldn't tell you how to set that stuff up though.

That's a huge part of the problem actually. I can figure out some poo poo, mainly from playing much later games. I don't even know what the units are lol

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 19:22

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I never played any WW properties after RA2YR though I guess Battle for Dune looked kinda fun. Didn't you pick a main faction and a subfaction? That seems a great system and I wished it got used more

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 21:11

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I never considered RA2s countries subfactions though I guess they are. I just considered them factions lol.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 22:28

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Getting an entire country on board would be a great way to build up clout and credibility for your competitive scene....and they go nuts for the lesser game :sigh:

Oh well.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 19:19

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

If I got TA+expansion from GOG, would I be able to play Escalation online with that or what? I refunded my steam copy because its only a buck more for the expansion on gog, even if I much prefer having all my poo poo in one place

# ¿ May 3, 2020 22:15

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Total annihilation kingdoms is on sale for 50%. It have any competitive scene to speak of?

# ¿ May 9, 2020 09:28

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

So I got TAESC and I followed to the best of my abilities the instructions from the website. I am extremely bad at computers and I got it to start but it's in windowed mode and lord is it a tiny window. It doesn't start if it isn't in window. I might just delete/uninstall everything and give it a shot tomorrow; I'm not attached to any of the saves (having all of one) and it looks all around much better than the vanilla game. From what I can tell. With a microscope.

# ¿ May 11, 2020 07:13

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Well here's another question: what's the commander pack? I refunded my steam copy so I could get the expansion pack included at gog for another whole dollar but got it half off on a sale anyway. But... it pretty much seems to be the exact same game. It's supposed to include the core contingency and battle tactics but I'll be damned if I know where/how to access them

# ¿ May 11, 2020 18:31

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Where would I get the zeal maps complete pack? I don't see it on the website and I have some reservations about downloading it from some third party (fourth party?) russian site.

Also, I'm following the FAQ at TAESC, but the example it uses are TAESC_BETA_6_8_1.exe and TAESC_BETA_8_1_9.rar. However, in the downloads section, the most recent download is TA Escalation GOLD 9.2.0. I did get the TA ESC BETAs to work last night, but with the aforementioned problems and also I couldn't even play campaign. Maps\ac01.tnt was missing?

I'll be checking out the link you gave me earlier in the meantime but even incongruities in filenames pretty much throws me for a loop

# ¿ May 12, 2020 00:16

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Wasn't somebody working on a freeware standalone or was that spring

# ¿ May 13, 2020 04:21

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Mordja posted:

Well thanks for the help but I'm having even less luck with the most current download. I'm probably just not going to worry about it

# ¿ May 21, 2020 15:47

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Klaus88 posted:

Been getting into TA style games lately.

Its a lot of fun! And about the only RTS game where the navy layer is fun and has depth to it, instead of being a pointless sideshow.

RA2 has fun Navy :colbert:

Allies are imba, ofc

# ¿ May 26, 2020 02:13

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Was RA2 the title that invented or at least popularized garrisonable neutral buildings? They'd existed in starcraft for I think 2 years, aoe2 for 1, but those were your buildings, or at least your allies.

# ¿ May 26, 2020 10:33

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Fallom posted:

There's always some niche Polish game that did everything 5 years before everyone else but RA2 was definitely the one that popularized it

What quote is that from

# ¿ May 26, 2020 19:26

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

I think they play fastest game speed on CNCnet to counteract lag but really all they're doing is making it shittier. Looks like the keystone cops and is impossible to micro.

# ¿ May 27, 2020 12:50

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Yuri's revenge?

I just joined about 10 random games and they're all 60.

e: ok, not the fastest game speed. They play it on 60 which is "faster". It's too fast though.

Milo and POTUS fucked around with this message at 14:22 on May 27, 2020

# ¿ May 27, 2020 14:19

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Oh I went to the MO channel in cncnet and it's busy as hell. In fact there were literally thousands on almost all the time and I think that's great. Do I have to dl something else to play MO or is it baked into the YR download

# ¿ May 27, 2020 14:48

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

ZearothK posted:

I am really enjoying Zero-K, but I also played TA in MP back in the day, so I guess I am the target audience?

Speaking of, the greatest RTS of all-time, Total Annihilation, is free to keep on gog.com for the next ~46 hours or so.

I jsut bought it :negative:

Tbf, it was only 3 bucks.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 17:35

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Turn your monitor on!

# ¿ Jun 24, 2020 12:37

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Are there no Total Annihilation streams on twitch?

# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 04:53

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Samopsa posted:

This is a pretty active and decent replay analysis channel for Total annihilation: https://www.youtube.com/c/TotalAnnihilationReplays

I've seen several of these but I think it'd be a lot more to keep the community active if someone was streaming it actively. I'd love to see TAE stuff

# ¿ Jul 12, 2020 14:02

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Don't feel daunted by ranked. Most people are loving morons!

# ¿ Aug 11, 2020 03:04

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

StashAugustine posted:

man I am having a blast in aoe2 using Malay on water migration maps; just ring your coast with infinite tower docks and nothing can land

I beat a malay with aztecs after they'd upgraded to harbors. It was a lower elo game but even so there's no way I should have won that lol

# ¿ Oct 25, 2020 11:50

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

It's really good and there's a lot going on including a $30K world cup soon!

And also contribute to the thread!

# ¿ Nov 14, 2020 11:53

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

The same civ I play in fictional locales. Random :cool:

# ¿ Jan 27, 2021 08:02

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Bad pathfinding is a sign of a good RTS apparently

# ¿ Mar 11, 2021 10:05

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Mordja posted:

[url=https://www.beyondallreason.info/news/alpha-games-are-running-how-to-set-up-a-match]BAR has just hit open alpha, instructions on the page.[/spring] It's basically a modern fork of Balanced Annihilation for TA Spring, with brand new graphics and balance. Here are some walking robots:

Kinda interested in this. I bought ta on a whim a while back and it's a great game with some solid viewing pro matches. I'd love to see that style of rts blow up and get a larger viewer base

# ¿ Mar 17, 2021 23:17

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

The leadership was fine they just lacked grit

# ¿ Mar 21, 2021 11:47

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Wait till you find about them in real life

# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 11:59

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Deakul posted:

Basically never play RTSes competitively and you'll have a great time.

This is true but you will never experience the ecstasy of victory over a tryhard and the subsequent death threats

# ¿ Mar 26, 2021 03:18

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Grabbed supreme commander 2 for the steam sale. It's pretty good. Probably be a lot better once I figure out all the hotkeys and poo poo. Wish units moved a little faster on some of the big maps too

# ¿ Jan 6, 2022 13:31

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Did they ever make a lords of the realm 3

# ¿ Jan 7, 2022 17:54

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

the whole eschewing single player mode for multiplayer e sports cred thing seems back asswards as hell to me because most of the best competitive games already have excellent single player campaigns. If they're doing it to just save a buck it'd at least be more honest and probably better received.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2022 11:40

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Hahaha awesome. I see they went for a more starcrafty resource collection. I assume the purple crystals are the main resource?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2022 19:08

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 06:51

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

ninjewtsu posted:

Not being able to do a quick vs ai game to work out mechanics definitely kneecaps it even as someone looking for MP

This is huge. I got the free SC2 version so I didn't even know what non-Terran units did before I got thrown into comp matches where you couldn't pick the AI difficulty because it scaled automatically

# ¿ May 14, 2022 21:04

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